We Must Combat Extremists

Wednesday

Sep 3, 2014 at 3:12 AM

You know this story has played out several times since Adolph Hitler. Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin and, now, ISIS. When will these killers understand that efficient killing machines whose entire purpose is elimination of human diversity in their ranks is not ever a winner in the long run? The world community will always come together with talented diversity to defeat them regardless of how long it takes or how many lives are lost in doing so (e.g., World War II Navajo Code Talkers).And when they have killed all whom they want to eliminate, they will begin finding differences among themselves and resume killing each other just to have an enemy. They are losers and their philosophy is a loser no matter how long it takes to play out.Oddly, even if we never lift a finger to fight them they will self-implode, but that will take too long. We will fight them and they will lose horribly and unmercifully once the world community becomes angry enough to do what needs to be done. Total annihilation of ISIS has unfortunately become not an unpleasant alternative to the prolonged human suffering and atrocities committed by this enemy as well as being the only way left, it seems, to protect American citizens and hold true to free values. This is, indeed, a cancer.So I have a question: What are we waiting for, a beheading of a dearly loved non-combatant? Maybe the brutal and unnecessary massacre of 200 Syrian prisoners of war? Maybe the next more gruesome beheading will be delivered in a box to the White House for emphasis.I know the diplomatic web is complicated in this region of the world with China and Russia literally flexing muscles and not so onboard with what must be done, but the atrocities of ISIS are not so complicated. They are calling us out and we should oblige them, quickly and totally.STEPHEN CARMANLakeland